Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.

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Why would anyone find it surprising that many in our government would stand up in support of Halliburton regarding something as trivial as a gang rape case.

Halliburton is a company whose subsidiary KBR has killed, by electrocution, at least twelve (12) of our soldiers while they were showering. Yes showering, on the base, what is supposed to be a relatively "safe place" during war.

Electrocution is still used by some US states as the primary tool to carry out exectutions on criminals sentenced to death.

Yet Halliburton just goes on raking in billions....as though nothing happened.

If an ordinary plumber had carelessly caused the electrocution of an 18 year old, would they still be in business, would they still have the support of the local government. Of course not, they would be in jail, awaiting trial for manslaughter, their business would be in ruins and their family would be pariahs.

For what it's worth, the army officially classified the deaths as "Negligent Homicide".

The Halliburton execs are probably only second to the Wall Street Banksters in their bonuses this year.

Oh, and I bet some of those bonuses (well at least the corporate profits that feed the bonuses to be sure) end up in the campaign coffers of many, if not all, in Congress